US EditionAnthropic Says Chinese AI Labs Used 24,000 Fake Accounts to Copy Claude
Anthropic claims three Chinese AI labs used 24,000 fake accounts to generate 16 million interactions with Claude, raising national security and export control concerns.
- Earlier this month, Anthropic accused three Chinese AI companies of creating more than 24,000 fake accounts and generating over 16 million exchanges with Claude via distillation, targeting its agentic reasoning, tool use, and coding.
- As U.S. officials debate export rules, Anthropic says extraction scale requires advanced AI chips, linking this to last month’s Trump administration decision allowing Nvidia and other U.S. vendors to export chips to China.
- Analysis of individual labs found Moonshot AI ran more than 3.4 million exchanges, MiniMax logged 13 million and redirected nearly half its traffic, while DeepSeek conducted over 150,000 exchanges.
- Anthropic urged a coordinated response across the AI industry, cloud providers, and policymakers, warning distillation-built models risk national security and pledging to invest in defenses.
- Looking ahead, Anthropic says export controls are justified as restricted chip access limits illicit distillation, while DeepSeek is expected to soon release DeepSeek V4 and TechCrunch plans a June 9, 2026 event.
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Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI laboratories of plundering his language model Claude on an industrial scale: 24,000 fake accounts, more than 16 million inquiries, answers as training material.
Top AI Firm Says Chinese Labs Stole U.S. Tech Using 24,000 Fake Accounts
from The National Pulse: WHAT HAPPENED: Anthropic, a leading U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) firm, has accused three China-based AI labs of using fraudulent accounts to extract valuable outputs from its Claude chatbot in a coordinated “distillation” campaign. 👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Anthropic, Chinese AI companies DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and U.S. government agencies investigating the claims. 📍WHEN & WHERE: The technology theft reportedly …
Anthropic Furious at DeepSeek for Copying Its AI Without Permission, Which Is Pretty Ironic When You Consider How It Built Claude in the First Place
Earlier this month, Google publicly griped that “commercially motivated” actors were trying to clone its Gemini AI through agents that queried the chatbot up to 100,000 times to “extract” the underlying model. The hypocrisy of Google’s accusations was palpable. For years, the search giant has relied on indiscriminately scraping the internet for content to train its AI models, without compensating copyright holders — and racking up lawsuits as a …
San Francisco., The U.S. Artificial Intelligence Company (IA) Anthropic yesterday claimed to have discovered campaigns by three Chinese AI firms to illegally extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot, in what it described as an industrial-scale intellectual property theft.
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